The Mysterious Woman on the Train

THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN ON THE TRAIN by Kay Williamson is a totally charming read.
            David Martin is a professor at a southern Wisconsin college when, on a train trip to Chicago, he meets Rosalind, resident ghost and victim of her own unsolved 1946 murder. Through dreams and ghostly trickery, it takes the mysterious and captivating Rosalind a year to prod David into taking up her cause.  But when he does, he turns to his stylishly spirited mother, Kathleen, for help.  Thus this unlikely pairing of mother and son amateur sleuths takes up the trail of the mother of all cold cases.
            Follow David and Kathleen as Rosalind leads them on a delightful trek from the mobster-land Chicago of her past to the culturally rich Austin, Texas, rife with promises of the future…just whose I’m referencing you’ll have to read the book to find out.  Be assured David and his mother will introduce you to all sorts of colorful people along the way to solving this cozy, cold case.
            Be prepared to be enchanted by David’s and Kathleen’s interaction as I was.  They are the stars of this story.  One more thing…coincidence may be replaced by synchronicity in your vocabulary once you’ve read Kay Williamson’s most entertaining THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN ON THE TRAIN.

Quote/review by multi-published author Barbara Raffin   www.BarbaraRaffin.com 

 

Murder at the Starlight Pavillion

On a warm August evening in a Cape Cod community, a young woman is found murdered at the Starlight Pavilion. A note written in lipstick on the lady’s room mirror from the murdered girl warns college English professor and murder mystery aficionado, Killette Bennett, away from her date of the evening.

Enter Detective Mike Farnham. Killette being linked to the dead girl by that lipstick note, he turns his attention first to her. But he soon discovers Killette herself is in danger of meeting the same end as the murder victim.

The ruggedly handsome Mike turns protector to Killette. But, given Killette’s talent for sleauthing, she can’t help but ferret out clues to a murder which somehow has made her a target of the killer. Teaming up to solve the MURDER AT THE STARLIGHT PAVILION, Mike and Killette find they make a great partnership in more ways than as crime solvers.

Listen to the Heart

Up and coming architect Debra Paley endured a lifetime of nightmares that resulted in psychosomatic illness. These nightmares combined with the odd recurrence that Debra is often mistaken for a girl name Nicole lead a parapsychologist to believe Debra is picking up the vibrations of another woman.

When Debra starts work at the prestigious St. Claire Architectural Firm, she meets and falls in love with Terry St. Claire. Coworker Anita Parker, obsessed with Terry, sabotages Debra's drawings and plots to murder her.

Meanwhile, two men are following wealthy Terry St. Claire with plans for a kidnapping.

On Halloween Eve, at the opening of the firm's latest project, The Carlotta Inn, Anita is prepared to carry out her murderous plot. But the evening proves to be full of surprises for both Anita and Debra as the mystery of Debra's psychosomatic illnesses is finally solved.

Time After Time

Pamela Ryan’s marriage is over, but her emotionally disturbed husband, Norman, tells her he’d rather kill her than to let her go. The stress of her disastrous marriage finally catches up to her in a mysterious way. In a Scottish tearoom, she finds herself lapsing into a Scottish dialect. Suspecting her strange behavior is in some way related to reincarnation, she, without telling Norman, seeks the help of past-life regression therapist Dr. Martin Bradford.

Under hypnosis, Pamela discovers she was Sarah MacAllister, a young Scottish girl engaged to Robyn Macqueen. As session after session reveals the details of Pamela’s tragic past life—of her death and her grief-stricken fiancé’s suicide, she and Dr. Bradford grow closer. But Pamela doesn’t fully understand the pull of her attraction towards her therapist until she discovers Dr. Martin Bradford was none other than Robyn Macqueen.

In spite of Norman’s murderous threats, the reunited lovers make plans to flee the country and to look for their past-life parents. But when Norman discovers their plans, he vows to find and kill them.

Editorial Comments:

"This novel has an intriguing and original premise, interesting characters, and a tight, fast-paced plot." iUniverse editor

Ghostly Whispers

A fast-paced suspense with romance and paranormal happenings.

Beautiful and wealthy Christie Rhineman believes she's the luckiest woman on Earth when she marries the charming successful broker, Brent Madison. But things take a different turn when Brent disappears on a business trip to the volatile country of Colombia.

Detective Zane Standish is hired to investigate and soon suspects a hoax, but is unable to convince Christie of his suspicions.

Eerie phone calls and rearranged photographs prompt Christie to confide in her social secretary, Marilyn.

Marilyn sets up a series of séances with her psychic friend, Joyce, and cautions Christie not to reveal any of the paranormal happenings or her family and friends will think she's crazy and have her committed.

Day-by-day, Zane is falling in love with his client. He finds clues and chases down leads until he finally gathers enough evidence to prove to Christie that her life is in danger. But will she listen and will it be in time to keep her out of harm's way?

The Bridge to Nowhere

When a prosecuting attorney, practicing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is murdered at The Bridge to Nowhere, Angie Lewis, her legal secretary, teams up with Sheriff Wayne Meyer to find the killer.

There is a long list of suspects, starting with the D.A.'s two eccentric sisters, an abusive ex-husband, and two released prisoners who had threatened her.

After Angie begins to receive threatening phone calls and a fire is deliberately set in her front yard, the town of Gary is once again shocked when another woman is found murdered at the bridge.

As the sheriff and Angie work together they are becoming strongly attracted to each other. But in spite of the sheriff's attempts to protect her, could Angie become the next victim at The Bridge to Nowhere?

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